November 15, 2003

Saturday, November 15 2003
I have changed news scripts and everything is working well. A news archive is now available and more addons are coming. Also, for all past news the dates read November, 15. These are incorrect, but all new news added will have correct dates. (Read more...)

Saturday, November 15 2003
Sony Corp. and 14 major publishing, printing and newspaper companies are planning a new eBook business that will focus on rental service based on OpenMG, Sony's digital rights management technology. The partners established an eBook distribution company for Japan called Publishing link,... (Read more...)

Saturday, November 15 2003
Thanks to the Internet and some original programming by Microsoft Canada, 105,000 blind or visually impaired Canadians will be able to read thousands of books, daily newspapers and magazines. Launched Wednesday by the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, the CNIB Digital Library... (Read more...)

Saturday, November 15 2003
Thirty years in the making, and about to break through commercially into the retail sign market with a display technology offering by Gyricon LLC of Ann Arbor, Mich., electronic paper stands to revolutionize the way written communication is transmitted, displayed, updated and retained.... (Read more...)

Saturday, November 15 2003
OverDrive, Inc., the leading vendor of eBooks to retailers and libraries, today announced broad support for Mobipocket, a popular software format that allows users to download and read eBooks on popular smartphones, all PDA systems, and personal computers. Over 10,000 commercial titles... (Read more...)

Saturday, November 15 2003
LEAH-Merchant DPSS Allows Affordable, Secure Downloadable Software and Product Delivery. Anyone can setup an online software store of their own in minutes. Yonkers, New York (PRWEB)November 3 2003-- Client By Design, LLC has released LEAH-Merchant DPSS 2.1 enabling Software and Digital... (Read more...)

Saturday, November 15 2003
Digital publications will now hold their place in history thanks to a private members bill, which became law on Friday, that allows the UK's six legal deposit libraries to demand copies of works published on CD, DVD and the internet. Under legal deposit legislation passed in 1911, publishers... (Read more...)

Saturday, November 15 2003
Shore Report On eBooks Marketplace Sees Brightening Prospects For Purchasing and Deployment. A new and comprehensive report released by Shore Communications Inc. paints an optimistic outlook for the emerging eBook industry that is already growing at exponential rates in year-over-year... (Read more...)

Saturday, November 15 2003
The Digital Book A Medial Revolution without a New Medium Can a book that doesn't come from comprehensibly materialized textual means still be considered a book? What happens when, in the form of an electronic publication on the World Wide Web, a typical book-type volume is designed... (Read more...)

Saturday, November 15 2003
New designs for dual-screen PDAs could stimulate the increasingly moribund market for handhelds. One of the most common complaints about PDAs is their limited screen size. Most offer a display of 5 by 3 inches or less--an inevitable restriction given the need to hold them in a single... (Read more...)

Saturday, November 15 2003
Publishers, authors groups and Martin Garbus all continue to find the new phase of Search Inside the Book troubling, for both legal and practical reasons. The Guild remains the most outspoken; after sending an email to authors last week advising of potential copyright violations, it... (Read more...)

Saturday, November 15 2003
Electronic galleys are the next step in the evolution of the printed galley, the cornerstone of publishers' book promotion strategies for more than 50 years. Galleys also are known as uncorrected page proofs or advanced reader copies. When galleys first came to the scene, book promoters... (Read more...)

Saturday, November 15 2003
In an effort to create and archive three dimensional computer representations of some of history's most important cultural artifacts, researchers from Stanford University and the University of Washington have employed laser rangefinder technologies to scan items and preserve them digitally.... (Read more...)

Saturday, November 15 2003
Adobe on Wednesday is introducing its 3D authoring tool, Adobe Atmosphere, for building multimedia-based interactive environments for the Web and PDF files. With Atmosphere, Web designers and digital document creators in applications such as arts, ecommerce, entertainment, and education... (Read more...)

Saturday, November 15 2003
netLibrary, the leading provider of eBooks to the institutional library market, has announced an agreement with Microsoft Corp. to distribute the latest Microsoft Press titles as eBooks. Over the next three months, netLibrary will release more than 270 frontlist Microsoft titles, ranging... (Read more...)

Saturday, November 15 2003
New development in ultra low power bistable LCD technologies will give mobile LCD displays dramatically superior optical properties according to Manoj Thanigasalam, speaking at Display Forum 2003 in Holland. While development is only in the early stages, the benefits over traditional... (Read more...)

Saturday, November 15 2003
Lime Wire Launches MagnetMix; New content portal offers authorized music, eBooks, literature, games, shareware, and video Lime Wire LLC, (www.limewire.com), a leading designer and developer of advanced P2P file sharing software that runs on the Gnutella Network, today announced a new... (Read more...)

Saturday, November 15 2003
Microsoft Chief Software Architect Bill Gates has yet to fess up and admit that "Winston Smith" is right about the destructive effect of onerous Digital Rights Management on both our freedom and the e-book industry. But maybe someone else's sage advice will help. In an article in Library... (Read more...)

Saturday, November 15 2003
A new online science journal aimed at changing the paradigm of scholarly publishing has proved so popular it's been mired in a crush of traffic since its Sunday night launch. The inaugural issue of the journal, called the Public Library of Science Biology, is the first journal to be... (Read more...)

Saturday, November 15 2003
Could the Patriot Act threaten the growth of e-commerce? That is the question being raised by some online booksellers and e-tailing analysts, who suggest that the Patriot Act, passed in October 2001 to give the government new counterterrorism capabilities, has already changed the way... (Read more...)

Saturday, November 15 2003
MobiPocket, SA and Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. (Amex: FEP) announced today the launching of eBookBase, the world's first wholesale eBook distribution service exclusively targeted at mobile devices. Now for the first time a publisher can have valued content at a host of "e-tail"... (Read more...)